Help with designer and direct

I am using ext designer and extdirect connected to a mysql database
It is displaying grids fine but is not displaying fields (displayfield)
What do I have to tell ext designer in order to display the fields (autoload worked on grid but not on displayfield)

NO

No
I am using field.display but its not showing the data
I know my connections are good (using firebug) because they are showing in a grid but on another pages I have several field.display('s) and they are not showing the data even though I can see the data is there (firebug)
Am sure its something simple that I haven't done (am a newbie to sen designer)

Not really

Am using designer and new to both it and to some extent js4
(am a vb programmer learning new language)
I think I understand, kindof but am doing my coding inside extdesigner
Can you give me an example/walkthru please